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The B&H Photo website has re-opened after their usual Sabbath closing! If you haven’t finished with your Black Friday weekend shopping there, you can get started again. Some places to look at B&H Photo:
+ 2017 Black Friday Specials page with 146 options
+ Massive Apple Sale (Macbooks, iPads, etc)
+ Sigma Lens Sale (92 options)
The iconic Polaroid patent US 3253528 of 1966 [see Google] is one of the many 18×24 inch prints sold by Massdrop.com for $16 with free shipping to US addresses. You can select this during the checkout process among the various other options.
All sales are final. The orders will ship in late December 2017. If you are not familiar with Massdrop, they are a different type of a website, more of a “shopping club” than a conventional online retailer. They specialize in “Group Buys” like this. You can purchase this for the next four days. Because some of their prices are lower than MAP, you have to create an account and login (free to sign-up) in order to see pricing.
Here’s a screenshot of the camera patent print:
Reading is fun-da-mental! The Amazon holiday season coupon is back! Use coupon code GIFTBOOK17 for $5 off a purchase of $20+ in print books (not ebooks) at Amazon Books.
The coupon expires Sunday 11/26/17 at 11:59pm pacific. Only applies to products sold and shipped by Amazon itself. This is a good idea for books that rarely go on sale, or have the same prices everywhere. These are the full terms/conditions.
Keep this coupon in mind when the Linsday Adler posing book goes live later on Saturday in The Gold Box.
Borrow Lenses rents gear, but they also re-sell rental gear to consumers. They now have a sale on used gear, for purchase (not rental) by consumers. And the coupon code shown in the screenshot below gets you 25% off purchases of used camera gear:
Speaking of used camera gear, the KEH Camera Black Friday promotion continues! It is a 3-day promotion, running until Sunday night. Coupon code BF17A gets you a discount depending on what product you buy:
+ 25% off the Featured Items at the Promotional page
+ 10% off all other Cameras and Lenses
+ 25% off Accessories
I don’t know if Olympus is “saving” the refurbished cameras and lenses for Cyber Monday, or if they want to “direct” shoppers towards their new condition products, or maybe they actually run out? Their Olympus Outlet store sat out the Black Friday festivities, it remained empty, and it still is empty as of the time of writing. I will be monitoring the situation and post updates as we get closer to Cyber Monday.
This block of lightning deals expired… For the latest action, check the Gold Box string of posts…
These daily deals expired BUT for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales
As of 11/27/17 recheck, all used units sold out…
You can relive the superzoom history thanks to used sales! The Panasonic FZ50 superzoom (12x optical) is available in “Used – Very Good” condition with a detailed description and a couple of pictures of the actual item at Amazon Warehouse Deals. It is eligible for the 20% off in-cart discount which drops its price from $110~ to $88~, sold and shipped by Amazon Warehouse Deals itself (3rd-party sellers are not eligible for the in-cart discount).
These offers expired… For the latest Lightning Deals, check the Gold Box blog-tag or the first page of the website….
These expired but for all lightning deal related matters, follow the Yellow Brick Road of GOLD BOX tagged posts 🙂 A link to them is in the Sidebar for your convenience.
This is an older post… A separate deal alert got posted after this went live…
This 4-hour block ended… For future action, check the Gold Box tag here and of course the Amazon Gold Box itself…
The Fuji X-T1 body with a free 35mm f2 WR lens offer for $800 has not returned for Black Friday, but Fuji has discounts on both X-T1 body options! The X-T1 body only goes for $649 with free accessories at B&H Photo, while the X-T1 Graphite body goes for $749 at B&H Photo (with 4% promotional rewards) and Amazon itself.
Adorama does not have them on sale, while Amazon is out of the X-T1 kits.
The Panasonic FZ-2500, a 1-inch RAWzoomer with a 20x superzoom lens, something our 2007 themselves might have considered a unicorn, remains at $998 but it gains a freebie. You have a choice, at B&H Photo you get a $100 B&H e-gift card. At Adorama, you sure get a freebie [sorry, I couldn’t resist), the Shure VP83F LensHopper Microphone which goes for $300 on its own!
The Panasonic GH5 body only is holding steady at $2000, but the imported/grey-market prices have been dropping steadily, currently going for $1500 grey market as one of the eBay Black Friday features.
But the Panasonic GH4 is not only going for $898 but you have choices on which freebie to pick at B&H Photo: FREE Rode Mic or mayhaps V-LOG Activation Kit or 4% promotional rewards ($36~ in future purchases)… Amazon has it for $900, but no freeebies…
A $200 discount is a pretty nice amount, except when the price of the camera is $5700. Still, $5500 is better than $5700, $200 can get you more memory cards or extra batteries or camera bags 🙂 The 1D X II is now going for $5500 with free accessories at Adorama and 2% promotional rewards (that’s a nice sum of $110 to spend in the future) at B&H Photo.
No freebies at Amazon but that 5% statement credit if you pay with a Prime VISA or Prime Store credit card is $275! Note that the Discover Q4 5% Cashback is limited to $1500 per credit card, so you’ll only get 5% back on the first $1500 of this price.
It’s a small drop for the good old Ricoh GR II, it is now going for the very specific price of $549.06 at Amazon by Amazon itself where it is in-stock and ready to ship, and at B&H Photo where it is backordered. Adorama remains at $560. This is a Big Sensor Prime (BSP) camera, still alive and kicking 🙂
The Nikon D500 dropped $100 since our previous check, but not only that, it gained a new friend, the Nikon MB-D17 battery grip for FREE! So $1800 gets you the D7200 body only with said MB-D17 battery grip and freebies that vary by retailer. This time Amazon is offering freebies (128GB Samsung EVO green microSD, bag), along with Adorama and B&H Photo offering their own sets of freebies.
The same promotion is also available for the D500 with 16-80mm kit which goes for $2400. It is interlinked in the listings of all the above retailers.
The Nikon D7500 body only remains at $1250, but having the previous generation model around gave Nikon the flexibility to create a discount since their prices were artificially too close to begin with. To cut a long story short, the Nikon D7200 body only dropped from $1000 to $800 since ten days ago. The other kits get parallel discounts. I don’t mention them all because it would take forever to do these posts.
So the $800 price, or $797 to be more specific, is available by Amazon itself (5% back with Prime VISA, or Discover Q4 cashback; I won’t repeat these in every post because it will take forever to post anything!) and Adorama (with freebies) and B&H Photo (with freebies).
Ten days ago when I did a price-check round the Canon 77D body only increased from $800 to $850, but right now, as part of the Black Friday festivities, the 77D body only is down to $750, the 70D with 18-55 for $900 and with 18-135 for $1149. You also get some free accessories that vary by retailer at B&H Photo and Adorama and Amazon itself (no freebies).
PS: we already mentioned the Canon 80D discounts both the new condition and the manufacturer refurbished, so obviously I am not going to create another post for them.
Sigma has a Foveon DSLR deal even! The price of the SD1 body only remains $1800, but they have dropped the price of the SD1 with 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM to $2000, so for $200 more you are getting a stabilized zoom with it. This is a special order so they won’t ship immediately at both Adorama and B&H Photo.
And now, the moment you have all been waiting for! I am beginning a full price check of all cameras tracked in the Camera Price Charts. This will basically cover almost all of the DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, along with the serious fixed lens cameras with RAW (above 1/2.x” sensor size). Hide your wallets!
We start in K-landia where the Pentax K-3 II body only has dripped down to $830 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself with a up to three units per customer.
But if you want the official Pentax battery grip to go with it, the BG-5, you can get them together as a bundle for $847 with free shipping at B&H Photo.
Back to the Gold Box we go where Nikon Df fans (or Df-curious photographers) can get the paperback edition of the “Nikon Df (Expanded Guides)” by Jon Snow (oops, Jon Sparks) for $12.29, with free Prime shipping or with a $25+ order.
This has 240 pages, and it has “Look Inside” activated, so when you click on the main picture in the gallery, it will take you on a wild ride inside the book. This is handy because you can jump all over the book, it can give you a much better feel for the book than just the first few pages that we get with the Kindle sample.
Offer ends on Saturday at 2:45am ET or earlier if sold out.
Ooops, forgot about the magazines! The DiscountMags Black Friday sale is in progress with 300+ magazines featured at low prices. Of photo interest there are four printed magazines (US addresses) as follows:
+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.15/year
+ Digital Photo for $4.15/year
+ Digital Photo PRO for $4.75/year
+ Videomaker for $6.49/year
+ no autorenewal
+ see them all at the BF Magazine Sale page
The Shutterbug you see there is a digital subscription (Zinio) for $15/year, nowhere near as good of a price as the others. Zinio defaults you to auto-renewal so make sure you turn off auto-renewal or yell at them for a refund.
The usual assortment of “six degrees of separation” from photography subjects are included, fashion, sports, weddings, nature, tech, and so forth.
There are so many refurbished sales at Canon I can’t process/post them all individually right now, so here is are the overview listing. I don’t know why they create so many listings, and I don’t know if there is complete or partial overlap between the categories. It is situations like these where it would really help if I was IBM’s Watson and could start 200 background process to sort it out!
+ 38 refurbished DSLR kits
+ 21 refurbished DSLR kit
+ nine refurbished DSLR kits
+ 97 refurbished lenses and flashes and such
+ 11 refurbished lenses
+ 7 refurbished lenses (some are EF-M)
+ 6 refurbished lenses
+ 3 refurbished lenses
The Canon Elph 360 HS dropped from $130 to $100 in manufacturer refurbished condition at the official Canon store in silver or black [purple sold out] with a 1-year Canon USA warranty. The new condition price dropped from $200 to $180.
The new condition Canon SX420 IS (42x superzoom) goes for $230 in new condition at authorized dealers but you can shave $100 off that price by getting it for $130 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty in manufacturer refurbished condition at the Canon USA outlet. As the “IS” hints, this has a CCD sensor. It is in-stock as of the time of writing. That was smart, the zoom ratio is in part of the mode name 🙂
And now some web hosting deals, because having websites as a working photographer is no longer not an option.
+ discounted web hosting at Host Gator with prices as low as $3.48/month for dedicated WordPress hosting. The lowest price is with a prepaid plan for the longest available plan. Prices increase with shorter prepaid durations and increase more if month to month. We use Hostgator for the main blog.
+ hosting and domain registration specials Name Cheap. We use NameCheap for domain registrations.
+ Bluehost Hosting Special for $2.65 peer month on a prepaid 36 month term on their Basic plan, plus a free domain. BlueHost is based in Utah so probably not a good match if you are planning to host adult or other controversial subject matter. Which becomes a plus if you prefer a web hosting service that does not host subject matter of that nature.
+ GoDaddy domain registration offers as low as $0.99 for the first year (future renewals will be at full price)
So many deals, so little time, so time for a “Trending Five” post, a spotlight of some of the deals that are generating some traction:
+ KEH Camera Black Friday coupon, 10% on cameras/lenses, 25% on accessories, AND 25% off on Featured Black Friday deals
+ up to 50% off on ALL classes at Creative LIVE – you make your own deal!
+ Seagate external and internal hard drives as one of the Gold Box deals of the day – follow the Amazon Lighting Trail using the Gold Box Blog Tag (Bookmark it or look for it in the Sidebar as well)
+ 60% off select items at Dell Refurbished (ends Friday 11:59pm Central)
+ a boatload of Canon refurbished, new condition, and with printer/PIXMA and other bundles are in progress
The latest model is the Canon EF 16–35mm f/2.8L III lens that goes with an “L flagship” price of $1999 in new condition at authorized Canon dealers like Amazon and such. The previous generation is the “II” and it goes for $1300 in new condition at authorized dealers such as Adorama.
But if you want to save even more, you can get the second generation model, the EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II as manufacturer refurbished for $900 at the Canon USA store with a 1-year Canon warranty. It is in-stock as of this post.
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